2000 Sogyal Rinpoche establishes Bluey’s Beach retreat centre during the Australian retreat; His Holiness Sakya Trizin teaches in Paris and London centres; Trulshik Rinpoche teaches in London; summer retreat at Lerab Ling with Chokling Rinpoche; His Holiness the Dalai Lama visits Lerab Ling, and gives a major teaching entitled The Path to Enlightenment over 10 days.

Rigpa had arrived in 2000 at a new, and telling, point in its development—a time for the consolidation of all that had gone before. And perhaps it was no coincidence that at this juncture His Holiness the Dalai Lama, visited Lerab Ling, and in the context of a drupchen performed by the Namgyal monks, granted the empowerment of Tertön Sogyal’s Vajrakilaya and gave five days of teaching on The Path to Enlightenment.